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Safety requirements have a high impact on current industrial applications. Companies are liable by law for injuries to health and environmental hazards. Today international standards exist to prove for hazard avoidance. A decisive part of safe industrial applications is the software running a Programmable Electronic System. Programmable systems cannot be certified in general, so a time-consuming certification process has to be re-initiated during each commissioning. Hence, there is a strong need for easy-to-use tools, which not only simplify the application development, but do also support the certification process by modelling and presenting the system’s behaviour in an easily accessible way. We present a methodically diverse approach combining both, safety-related and standard requirements, within a single application. We apply the documentation technique of “Cause & Effect Diagrams” to a software tool. This allows developing efficiently safety-related applications up to Safety SIL 3 [2].
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Russo, H., Turk, A. (2007). Application of Interactive Cause and Effect Diagrams to Safety-Related PES in Industrial Automation. In: Saglietti, F., Oster, N. (eds) Computer Safety, Reliability, and Security. SAFECOMP 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4680. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-75101-4_18
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